Environmental Disasters and Land Grabs As Crimes Against Humanity

Contents
Preface
Introduction
	References
Chapter 1
The History and Development of Crimes against Humanity
	1. Introduction
	2. State and Non-State Actors, International  Law and Jus Cogens
		2.1. Precedents Based on General Principles of Law and Crimes against Humanity
	3. Non-State Actors: Multinational Corporations, Their Nature and Their Role
		3.1. The Principles of Nuremberg: The Perpetrators
	4. What Is an Environmental Disaster?
		4.1. The ICC and the Policy Paper on Case Selection and Prioritisation
		4.2. The Crime of Aggression
	5. The United Nations System and Universal Jurisdiction
	6. The Systemic Root of Environmental Disasters
	References
Part 1: Ecoviolence and Environmental Disasters
Chapter 2
Crimes against Humanity and Ecological Disasters
	1. Introduction
	2. Crimes against Humanity and Climate Change
		2.1. A “Lawless World” and Global Warming: Environmental Disasters and Domestic Law
		2.2. Water as Danger and the Negative Consequences of Climate Change
		2.3. The Kivalina Complaint and “Civil Conspiracy Allegations”
	3. Environmental Disasters and Criminal Responsibility
		3.1. The Use of Analogy for Environmental Crimes
	4. Does any Legal Means Exist to Restrain Harmful Activities Involving the Environment?
		4.1. Environmental Law in Conflict Situations
		4.2. Sustainable Development and “Post-Truth” Politics
		4.3. The Lie of Sustainable Development
	5. Ecocrimes and Existing Law Regimes: Some Further Aspects of Climate Change
		5.1. Environmental Disasters and Ecocrimes Attacks on Biodiversity and Ecological Integrity
		5.2. Ecocrimes and Water: The International Law of the Sea
	6. Crimes against Humanity and the Common  Heritage of Humankind
	References
Chapter 3
Crimes against Humanity and the Right to Health
	1. Introduction
		1.1. Environmental Disasters and Public Health: The Role of Epidemiology
		1.2. Environmental Disasters and Public Health Today
	2. From the Rights of the Child to  Intergenerational Justice
	3. A “New Branch of Pediatrics”: The Developing Field of “Children’s Environmental Health”
	4. Crimes against Humanity and the Right to Life  and Normal Development
	5. Crimes against Humanity and  “Capacity Responsibility”
	6. The Right to Health and  Environmental Disasters
		6.1. A Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH)
	References
Part 2: Ecoviolence and Land Grabbing
Chapter 4
Ecoviolence, Land Grabbing and the Right to Food
	1. Introduction: Approaches to Land Grabbing
	2. The Right to Food and Water and Land Grabbing as a Breach of Human Rights
	3. Corporate Land Grabs and Food Scarcity
		3.1. Land Grabs, Food Scarcity and International Law
		3.2. The FAO Report on Hunger and Climate Change
		3.3. Climate Change and Land Grabbing
		3.4. The State’s Role: Beyond “Gatekeeping”
	4. Accountability for Land Grabbing
		4.1. Agribusiness and Its Corporate Power: The Quest/ Acceptance of Economic and Other Benefits as Corruption
	5. Multiple Forms of Land Grabs: Quantitative and Qualitative Loss of Control
	References
Chapter 5
Ecoviolence, Land Grabbing and the Right to Be Free from Racial Discrimination
	1. The World Bank, Indigenous Peoples and the  Issue of Consent
	2. Internal Issues within the World Bank:  Consent or Consultation? The Meaning of “Free,” “Prior” and “Informed”
	3. Indigenous Peoples and Land Grabs:  Non-Food Dispossessions
		3.1. Native Title in Australia: Mabo v. Queensland
		3.2. Canadian First Nations and Sui Generis Land-Based Rights
	4. Land Grabs and the Rights of Peoples
		4.1. Development and Food-Related Land Grabs in the Third World
		4.2. An Aside on the Philosophical and Political Roots of Labelling as Naming
	5. Land Grabbing in All Continents and  Sustainable Development
		5.1. Development in Conflict with the Integrity of  Life Support System
	6. Land Grabs as Crimes against Humanity:  The Presbyterian Church of Sudan, Rev. John Gaduel, Nuer Community, Development Services and Others V. Talisman Energy Inc.
	References
Chapter 6
Crimes against Humanity: Legal Pathways and Approaches to Justice
	1. Introduction
	2. A Question of Responsibility and Accountability
	3. Does Anything Exist Today to Identify and Punish the Perpetrators of Environmental Crimes against Humanity?
		3.1. Climate Change and State Obligations
		3.2. Other Land Grabs: Unacknowledged and Intractable Today
	4. A Difficult Question: Green Land  Grabs Revisited
		4.1. What Is Ecological Integrity?
		4.2. Green Land Grabs: From Theoretical Reasons for Protection to the Reality of Dispossession
	5. The Reality of Dispossession
		5.1. From Social Catastrophe to Crimes against Humanity
		5.2. Can These Crimes against Humanity Be Prevented?
	References
About the Author
Index
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